Ornamenting enameled or glazed surfaces



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HENRY ABBOTT, OF NEWVARK, NEW JERSEY,ASSIGNOR OF TI-IREE-FOURTHS TO XVINTON O. G-ARRISON, OF SAME PLACE, ANDTHE ELGIN NATIONAL \VATOH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ORNAMENTING ENAMELED OR GLAZED SURFACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,913, dated December30, 1884 Application filed January 12, 1884. (No specimens.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY ABBOTT, of Newark,in the county of Essex, and in the State of New Jersey, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Ornamenting Enameled or GlazedSurfaces; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to the ornamenting of enameled or glazed surfacesby means of a transparent film upon or within which is a design incolor; and it consists in the method of applying a transfer-film to awatch-dial or other like article without liability to injury from theadhesive liquid employed, substantially as hereinafter specified.

In the use of a transfer-film of collodion, I take the same, backed bywet paper, and apply it to the surface to be ornamented, which surfacehas previously been coated with an adhesive preparation or varnish thatis soluble in water, but not in alcohol or ether. Pressure is nowapplied to the paper backing for the purpose of forcing said film intointimate contact with the varnished surface and to expel all air frombetween the same, during which operation the surplus varnish is pressedoutward, and by capillary attraction is liable to be drawn upwardbetween said film and its paper backing, in which event it will preventthe subsequent dissolution of such portions of the film as it coversexteriorly by shielding the same from contact with the solvent employedfor such purpose. To prevent such movement of the varnish, I placebeneath the 3 5 dial or other like article being ornamented a sheet ofabsorbent paper, and cause the latter to extend outward beyond-the edgesof the former, by which means all of the surplus varnish forced outwardwill be absorbed by 0 said underlying paper, leaving none to be drawnover the transfer-film. After use said paper will usually be partly orentirely saturated from its edges to its center, and it will be readilyseen that the harmless disposition 5 of such surplus varnish is animportant feature in the process of transferring designs.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, whatI claim as new 1s 7 50 The method of securing transfer-films uponwatch-dials or other like articles, consisting,

first, in placing beneath such article a sheet of absorbent paper, thencoating the upper surface of said article with an adhesive liquid, 5 5then applying thereon the transfer-film backed with paper, and, lastly,applying pressure to the back of said film to expel the surplus adhesivesolution and produce close contact between said film and the underlyingsurface, 60 substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this19th day of December, 1883.

HENRY ABBOTT.

\Vitnesses:

GEo. S. PRINDLE, L. L. WooLLEY.

